John 18:1
When Jesus had said these things, he went out with his disciples over the strand of Cedron, (or he went out with his disciples across the Kidron Stream, or the Kidron Gorge, or the Kidron Valley), where (there) was a yard, or a garden, into which he entered, and his disciples.
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In The King James Version
In Context
2And Judas, that betrayed him, knew the place, for oft Jesus came thither with his disciples.
Cross References
Genesis 3:23And the Lord God sent him out of (the) paradise of liking, that he should work the earth, of which he was taken. (And so the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to work the earth, from which he was taken.)
2 Samuel 15:23And all men wept with great voice, and all the people passed forth; and the king went over the strand of Kidron, and all the people went against the way of the olive tree (s), that beholdeth to the desert. (And all the people wept loudly, as they all went forth; and the king led the people over the Kidron Stream or over the Kidron Gorge, and they went toward the way of the olive trees which looketh toward the wilderness.)
2 Kings 23:6And the king made the wood of maumetry to be borne out of the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, in (to) the even valley of Kidron, and he burnt it there; and he drove it into powder, and casted it forth upon the sepulchres of the common people. (And the king ordered the sacred pole of that idol, or that false god, Asherah to be taken out of the House of the Lord, and out of Jerusalem, to the Kidron Valley, and he burned it there; and he drove it down into powder, and threw it forth onto the tombs, or the graves, of the common people.)
2 Chronicles 15:16But also he put down Maachah, the (grand)mother of Asa the king, that is, his own (grand) mother, from the strait empire, for she had made in a wood a simulacrum, or a likeness, of a man’s rod; and he all-brake that simulacrum, and pounded it into gobbets, and burnt it in the strand of Kidron. (And Asa also removed his grandmother Maachah, from her place of honour, for she had made an image, (or a likeness), of a man’s rod in the forest or for she had made an obscene idol for the worship of Asherah; and he broke up that image, and pounded (it) into pieces, and burned it by the Kidron Stream or and burned it in the Kidron Gorge.)
Jeremiah 31:40and all the valley of carrions, and it shall compass [the] ashes, and all the country (side) of death, unto the strand of Kidron, and to the corner of the east gate of horses, (or and all the valley of the dead, and the ashes, and all the countryside unto the Kidron Stream, and unto the corner of the Horse Gate to the east); (yea), the holy thing of the Lord shall not be drawn out, and it shall no more be destroyed without end.
Matthew 26:36Then Jesus came with them into a town, that is said Gethsemane (or Then Jesus came with them to a place, that is called Gethsemane). And he said to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I go thither, and pray.
Matthew Henry on John 18:1
Hitherto this evangelist has recorded little of the history of Christ, only so far as was requisite to introduce his discourses; but now that the time drew nigh that Jesus must die he is very particular in relating the circumstances of his sufferings, and some which the others had omitted, especially his sayings. So far were his followers from being ashamed of his cross, or endeavouring to conceal it, that this was what, both by word and writing, they were most industrious to proclaim, and gloried in it. This… Read the whole commentary →